Re: Kernel hang on 6.x

2007-01-11 Thread Brian Dean
that if it is possible to autosize this at boot based on swap size, that would be the thing to do. Thanks very much for your help. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Kernel hang on 6.x

2007-01-04 Thread Brian Dean
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 11:50:43PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: The 'traceall' seemed to miss several threads actually (like pid 18). Can you get a 'ps'? Also, are you able to get a kernel dump when this happens? I can't ps that particular session since it is no longer available, however I

Kernel hang on 6.x

2006-12-14 Thread Brian Dean
Hi, We're experiencing a kernel hang on a 6.x quad processor Sun amd64 based system. We are able to reproduce it fairly reliably, but the environment to do so is not easily replicatable so I cannot provide a simple test case. However, I have been able to build a debug kernel and when the system

Re: puc/sio driver - receives but doesn't send

2003-12-16 Thread Brian Dean
bought it. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

puc/sio driver - receives but doesn't send

2003-11-25 Thread Brian Dean
, etc. I'm running 4.9-STABLE from a few days ago. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bsdhome.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Programming the Parallel Port using ppi.

2002-10-27 Thread Brian Dean
changed it, or are running as root, your program is most likely failing to even open it, but you're not noticing because you aren't checking your return codes. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: USB to IDE converter

2002-04-08 Thread Brian Dean
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:51:09AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: USB hasn't changed much in -stable between 4.4 and now. We've got a lot of new usb code in -current though, and I'm hoping to have the bugs ironed out before 4.6. I was amazed at all the merging you've done from Net/OpenBSD

Re: USB to IDE converter

2002-04-07 Thread Brian Dean
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:41:35PM -0800, Doug White wrote: 'camcontrol rescan 1'? That provoked this response: Apr 7 09:36:21 neutrino /kernel: umass1: GoodWay USBIDE GoodWay USBIDE, rev 1.10/2.60, addr 3 Apr 7 09:36:21 neutrino /kernel: umass1: Invalid CSW: tag 2359384 should be 1 Apr 7

USB to IDE converter

2002-04-06 Thread Brian Dean
Hi, I just got one of these hoping that it would work under FreeBSD but so far can't make it work: http://www.cyberguys.com/cgi-bin/sgin0101.exe?GEN9=5CG01T1=131+0855UREQA=1UREQB=2UREQC=3UREQD=4 It shows up as: Controller /dev/usb0: port 1 addr 3: self powered, config 1, GoodWay

odd ethernet frame

2002-03-24 Thread Brian Dean
of my LAN and is set to forward between the interfaces. However, if I run a tcpdump on that interface, the mysterious packet never shows up there. I'm at a loss to find an explanation. Any ideas? Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: read-only root partition?

2002-02-28 Thread Brian Dean
. These are just a few suggestions. I'm sure there are many ways to implement what you are wanting. Good luck! -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port

2002-02-12 Thread Brian Dean
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:53:52AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Well, we could import ksh, which already does this :-) Go for it. Add YES vote from me! -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Does DDB's watch feature actually work?

2001-11-18 Thread Brian Dean
task). -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: hardware watch point support

2001-10-03 Thread Brian Dean
Seems to work ok for a simple test case I just tried with 4-STABLE (post 4.4-RELEASE). I don't have a 4.3-RELEASE box to test, but it should work there too. -Brian On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:24:26PM -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: Does FreeBSD 4.3-release support hardware watchpoint? If so, how

Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4

2001-09-18 Thread Brian Dean
, but then other installers would have easy access to what's available for installation as well, and you wouldn't have to modify sysinstall so much when things change. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread Brian Dean
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:06:44PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:58:02 CST, Warner Losh wrote: The reason I'd like to see it isn't so that make world kills things automatically, but so that I could kill them (or at least find out what should be killed) on systems

Re: fdisk(8) adjusting to head/cylinder bounderies

2001-07-21 Thread Brian Dean
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:29PM +0100, Ian Dowse wrote: Below is a patch that makes fdisk request user confirmation before making any changes to the start and end of partitions. Please allow this behaviour to be overridden by a flag that can specified so that scripts don't suddenly stop

Re: math library difference between linux emulation and native freebsd (and native linux)

2001-07-18 Thread Brian Dean
(Choosing a random message to reply to ...) While looking for commercial electronics CAD software for FreeBSD, I came across Whitely Research Inc (http://www.srware.com/) which has this note on their site: http://www.srware.com/linux_numerics.txt In light of this thread, I thought

kernel ddb patch for setting hardware watchpoints

2001-06-30 Thread Brian Dean
the debug registers are a per-cpu thing, they won't be set for the other CPUs. I'll work on that next. See below for a sample session. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Example session: login: FreeBSD/i386 (stage.bsdhome.com) (ttyd1) login: Debugger

Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD

2001-06-21 Thread Brian Dean
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: Hmm, let's see: Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation (Maynard, MA) Appl. No.: 646734 Filed: May 3, 1996 Versus: * Derived from hp300 version by Mike Hibler, this version by William *

Re: Debuggers for FreeBSD

2001-05-31 Thread Brian Dean
of them until later. IIRC, gdb support for the debug registers came in the 4.1.1-RELEASE of FreeBSD. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-04 Thread Brian Dean
DESTDIR=/scratch/cdroot After all that, specify boot/boot.fd as your ISO eltorito boot image file. Enjoy! -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] dofdboot () { DESTDIR=$1 echo DOFDBOOT: DESTDIR=$DESTDIR echo Generating 2.88 MB boot floppy image KERNELIMG=${DESTDIR}/kernel

NFS_ROOT not working when using a Netapp server

2001-01-16 Thread Brian Dean
0x0008 Jan 15 13:28 /dev/mem # df -k . Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on AA.BB.CC.DD:/vol/nfsroot/img3 15813736 2746140 1306759617%/ I can provide more boot verbosity upon request. Any ideas as to what the problem might be? Thanks, -Brian

Re: NFS_ROOT not working when using a Netapp server

2001-01-16 Thread Brian Dean
's or ours? It is interesting to note that this mangling does not occur when FreeBSD is both the client and the server. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!)

2001-01-10 Thread Brian Dean
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:20:43PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: John Polstra wrote: I'm happy to report that this problem is solved now. After one fellow wrote to me and reported that his switch of the same model worked OK, I hunted around on the Belkin web site. It turns out that Belkin

Re: ptrace(PT_GETDBREGS) message in remote debugging

2000-12-07 Thread Brian Dean
, just do this: % cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils % (cd libbfd make) % (cd libopcodes make) % (cd libiberty make) % (cd gdb make make install) This should build the missing libs and then gdb should link correctly. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ptrace(PT_GETDBREGS) message in remote debugging

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Dean
is against -STABLE, but I don't think this has diverged any from -CURRENT. Give this a try and let me know. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: freebsd-nat.c === RCS file: /usr00/FreeBSD/mirror/ncvs/src

Re: Boot off USB SanDisk?

2000-10-25 Thread Brian Dean
: You can use a IDE - CF adapter to boot off this device. You can't : boot it off via the USB device however. So does FreeBSD recognize this as 'ad[0123]'? Even if we can boot from them, I suppose that it would be asking too much to expect any kind of hot pluggability? -Brian -- Brian

Re: Virtual interaces and tunneling stuff over SSH

2000-08-02 Thread Brian Dean
like, I'm pretty sure). If you use this method, you will need to modify pty-redir slightly so that it's child sleeps for a second or so before execing ssh. This works around a combination of non-standard behaviour in our pty ioctl(), and, I believe, a mis-use of 'isatty()' in ssh. -Brian -- Brian

getdirentries() and /proc

2000-05-25 Thread Brian Dean
ficiently large enough to hold a few struct dirent's considered to be OK? Should I not use 'getdirentries()', and opt instead for 'opendir()' and 'readdir()'? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsub

Re: icmp-response error

2000-05-10 Thread Brian Dean
$echo fi done Good Luck! -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Tuning up semaphores in kernel

2000-02-13 Thread Brian Dean
SEMMNI is the number of semaphore ids, i.e., the number of times you can call 'semget()' without deleting any semaphores. SEMMNS is the actual number of semaphores in the system, which should be = SEMMNI. Of course, you can ask 'semget()' to give you up to SEMMSL semaphores on each call, so

Re: Tuning up semaphores in kernel

2000-02-11 Thread Brian Dean
Take a look at: sys/conf/param.c: /* * Values in support of System V compatible semaphores. */ #ifdef SYSVSEM struct seminfo seminfo = { SEMMAP, /* # of entries in semaphore map */ SEMMNI, /* # of semaphore identifiers */

Re: natd is jumpy

1999-12-05 Thread Brian Dean
looking. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

natd is jumpy

1999-12-03 Thread Brian Dean
uot;. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

how to shut down a TCP connection

1999-09-21 Thread Brian Dean
OS. The connecton on 'bos' at this point is actually closed. Does anyone know how I can manually shutdown the above connection on 'vger' short of waiting a really long time or rebooting? Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: how to shut down a TCP connection

1999-09-21 Thread Brian Dean
:Does anyone know how I can manually shutdown the above connection on :'vger' short of waiting a really long time or rebooting? : :Thanks, :-Brian :-- :Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Turn on keepalives and set the parameters really low so the connection times

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-08 Thread Brian Dean
From: Thomas David Rivers [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just wondered if this should be integrated into ptrace(), so the various debuggers wouldn't have to know about it. It seems that would be the proper abstraction - hardware that supports it would "have it" - and the programs that "used it"

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-08 Thread Brian Dean
From: Thomas David Rivers riv...@dignus.com I just wondered if this should be integrated into ptrace(), so the various debuggers wouldn't have to know about it. It seems that would be the proper abstraction - hardware that supports it would have it - and the programs that used it

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-07 Thread Brian Dean
tree about 4 hours or so old. The new file that is required is listed out after the patches. Please let me know if anything else is needed or if anything needs to be changed (style or feature). Thanks to Jonathan Lemon, Peter Wemm, and others for answering my questions. Thanks, -- Brian Dean

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-05 Thread Brian Dean
a shared data structure. Any ideas are welcome, and I will do my best to implement them. Now that I've done this much, I now need to look at gdb some more and hook in the new interface. I'll follow that up with additional testing. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean SAS Institute Inc

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-04 Thread Brian Dean
for setting/getting the hardware watchpoints at the apropriate place(s). Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean SAS Institute Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Thomas David Rivers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-04 Thread Brian Dean
for setting/getting the hardware watchpoints at the apropriate place(s). Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean SAS Institute Inc brd...@unx.sas.com To: Thomas David Rivers riv...@dignus.com Cc: brd...@unx.sas.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: support for i386 hardware debug

support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-03 Thread Brian Dean
some cycles on this, but I don't want to go to the effort if there's little chance that the work would be integrated. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean SAS Institute Inc brd...@unx.sas.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body